There's nothing like the satisfaction of building your own computer—and then showing it off to anyone who will listen. Well, we're listening and we'd like to see your rig.

Building your own computer allows you to create a system perfectly tailored to your needs. You also learn a lot from picking your parts and putting them together—knowledge that can help you be a better troubleshooter should the need arise. Custom PC builds are near and dear to our life hacking hearts. We've done an entire Night School series on how to build a computer from scratch, so if you've never done it before that's a perfect place to start. We also maintain a handy always up-to-date guide on the best PCs you can build for $600 and $1200 if you'd like to use our research as a starting point for speccing out your build. And rest assured, we haven't left you Mac users out of the fun. Behold our always up-to-date guide to building a hackintosh.

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Now, we want to see that beastly (or not so beastly) rig you've put together. Take a moment to snap a pic of your custom PC and don't be afraid to open up that case so we can see inside. If you'd also like to share your system specs, all the better. You can include the details with your picture or get all fancy and use PCPartPicker—a free service that lets you quickly select the parts you've used and share your build. And if you've forgotten some of your components, Speccy for Windows will show you exactly what you've got lurking inside that case.